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 There was again no coverage by Newsday or Cablevision’s News12 of Sunday’s important Long Island LGBT Pride Rally, Parade, and Festival Events in Huntington, New York. I urge you to e-mail, write, and call Newsday and Cablevision’s News12 and protest the snub and lack of coverage of Sunday’s important Long Island LGBT Pride Rally, Parade, and Festival in Huntington. Newsday’s News Desk Editor John Mancini wrote me back about that oversight in 2007, and assured me that it would not happen again, yet it has. Sunday was the 20th Long Island LGBT Pride rally, parade and festival in Huntington, which was on Newsday’s front page in its first year. They were notified of these important community events, which were attended by at least five thousand of marchers and spectators. Newsday this year again covered the Puerto Rican Parade in New York City, but again failed to cover the local Long Island Pride events in right in Huntington, Long Island. The LGBT community leadership considers this oversight to be a direct snub and a slap in the face from Newsday, and they request an explanation. Cablevision’s News 12 also snubbed the Pride events with no coverage whatsoever. None! The local “Huntington Patch” and “The Long Island Press” did cover Pride the events. Watch the video here: http://huntington.patch.com/articles/huntington-celebrates-20-years-of-pride#video-490165 Thanks for your help and please pass this on after you take action. Here is the contact information: Newsday E-mail Editorials and Opinion Telephone 1-800-NEWSDAY or 631-843-2700 Postal Mail Newsday Cablevision News 12 http://www.news12.com/news/article_external.jsp?articleId=224102 www.news12.com Call General inquiries and viewer feedback Fax Postal Mail Visit The Long Island Pride Parade Website Here: www.liprideparade.com/
Tomorrow, Wednesday June 16, Closing Arguments will be heard in the Federal District Court bench trial Perry v Schwarzenegger, also known as the Prop 8 trial. Act On Principles will be live tweeting from the San Francisco courthouse beginning about 10 AM Pacific Time. The feed will be available on the Act On Principles home page (www.ActOnPrinciples.org), or by following @Actonprinciples on Twitter. Evidence in the trial, which is also known as the Olson Boies trial after the famous attorneys attempting to overturn the California Constitutional amendment that prohibited same sex marriage, was heard by Judge Vernon Walker in January. At that time, Walker decided to postpone the closing arguments until attorneys on both sides could collate the evidence for him, and to give himself time to prepare questions for both sides to answer during their summations. That final stage in the trial was delayed due to an evidentiary argument in which the side defending Prop 8 wanted internal campaign documents from third parties. After Equality California and the American Civil Liberties Union relented and gave up the documents, the Judge scheduled closing arguments for tomorrow, and submitted dozens of questions which seem designed to test certain legal arguments, and to elicit any evidence supporting a rational basis for passage of Prop 8. The closing arguments begin at 10 AM and continue until complete. Judge Walker, who initially fast tracked the trial, is expected to rule on the case sometime this summer. In a related matter, the new LGBT podcast, Same Sex Sunday included Act on Principles’ Prop 8 trial tweeter John Bare for its initial round of interviews to discuss his impressions of the trial. The podcast is available on iTunes and at their website, http://samesexsunday.podbean.com/mf/play/3ye543/SameSexSundayEpisode2.mp3 .
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